Raw Zones
"Raw Zones", written, directed and produced by Bethany Jacobson. This three channel synchronized video installation was exhibited for two months in Spring of 1987 at PS 1 in Long Island City. It was created in part at The Experimental Television Center and includes image processed footage.It was shot on East 7th Street between B&C. Set in the trenches of a modern day "war zone" this "punk opera" reinterprets the myth of Pandora. The walls of the installation are papered with archival stills of telecommunications systems used by IBM, ATT and NASA and the Dept of Defense. The director of photography was Babette Mangolte, known for her work with Chantal Ackerman and Sally Potter. The cast included East Village luminary Tuli Kupferberg of the infamous Fugs and Robert Watlington, veteran East Village artist and poet and the soundtrack was composed by Stephen Taylor, guitar accompanist for Allen Ginsburg.